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2005-09-25

On this day in History - Sep 25

0275 - M. Claudius Tacitus is appointed Roman emperor by the senate.
0303 - On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.
0813 - Al-Amin, Arabic Caliph of Islam (809-813), was murdered.
1066 - The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking era.
1066 - Harald III Hardrada dies (killed in battle) (b. 1015). King of Norway and England (1047-66),
1086 - William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine dies (b. 1025)
1333 - Prince Morikuni dies (b. 1301). Japanese shogun.
1358 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was born (d. 1408). Japanese shogun.
1396 - Ottoman Emperor Beyazid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis
1493 - Christopher Columbus set sail from Cadiz, Spain, with a flotilla of 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere
1506 - King Philip I of Castile dies (b. 1478)
1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and claimed the Pacific Ocean for Spain. He was named governor of Panama and the Pacific by King Ferdinand
1525 - Steven Borough was born (d. 1584). English explorer
1534 - Pope Clement VII dies (b. 1478)
1536 - Johannes Secundus dies (b. 1511). Dutch poet.
1555 - The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.
1599 - Francesco Borromini was born (d. 1667). Swiss sculptor.
1602 - Caspar Peucer dies (b. 1515). German reformer.
1617 - Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan dies (b. 1617)
1626 - Lancelot Andrewes dies (b. 1555). English scholar.
1630 - Ambrosio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases dies (b. 1569). Spanish general.
1644 - Ole Rømer was born (d. 1710). Danish astronomer.
1665 - Maria Anna of Austria dies (b. 1610)
1680 - Samuel Butler dies (b. 1613). English poet and satirist.
1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau was born (b. 1764). French composer (Treatise of Harmony, Hippolyte and Aricie, Castor and Pollux, Zoroastre, Les Indes Galants).
1690 - "Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick", the first newspaper published in the Americas, published for the first and only time.
1694 - Henry Pelham was born (d. 1754). Prime Minister of Great Britain.
1698 - D. Diogo de Faro e Sousa dies. Portuguese noble.
1703 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll dies (b. 1658). Scottish privy councillor.
1711 - Qianlong Emperor of China, was born (d. 1799)
1725 - Nicolas Joseph Cugnot was born († 1804). French automobile pioneer.
1764 - Fletcher Christian was born (d. 1793). English Bounty mutineer.
1777 - Johann Heinrich Lambert dies (b. 1728). French-German mathematicien.
1782 - Charles Robert Maturin was born (d. 1824). Irish playwright and novelist.
1796 - Antoine-Louis Barye was born (d. 1875). French sculptor.
1789 - The Congressional Apportionment Amendment to the United States Constitution is proposed at the U.S. Congress
1804 - The Teton Sioux (a subdivison of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Corps of Discovery as a toll for moving further upriver.
1825 - Joachim Heer dies (b. 1879). Swiss politician.
1846 - U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor captured the Mexican city of Monterrey.
1849 - Johann Strauss, Senior dies (b. 1804). Austrian composer.
1862 - Billy Hughes was born (d. 1952). Seventh Prime Minister of Australia.
1866 - Thomas Morgan was born (d. 1945). American geneticist.
1867 - Oliver Loving dies (b. 1812). American pioneer rancher.
1873 - Affonso Camargo was born († 1954). Brazilian politician.
1881 - Lu Xun was born (d.1936). Chinese writer.
1884 - Edgard Roquette-Pinto was born († 1954). Brazilian physician, ethnologist and essayist.
1888 - The Royal Court Theatre, London, opened.
1890 - Yosemite National Park established in California.
1897 - William Faulkner was born (d. 1962). American novelist. Nobel Prize-winning writer in 1949. ( The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absolom!, Sanctuary, The Bear, Soldiers’ Pay, The Reivers)
1898 - Austregésilo de Athayde was born († 1993). Brazilian journalist and writer.
1903 - Mark Rothko was born (d. 1970). Latvian-born painter. His work included “Subway” (1936/1939), “Street Scene” (1936/1938), “Untitled” (1942), “Untitled” (1942/1943), “Phalanx of the Mind” (1945), “The Source” (1946), “Sacrificial Moment” (1946), “Number 18” (1948), and “Untitled” (1945-1946).
1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich was born (d. 1975)., Russian composer.
1906 - José Figueres Ferrer was born. President of Costa Rica (1948-1949, 1953-1958 e 1970-1974)
1912 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York,_New York.
1915 - Herculano Pires was born († 1979). Brazilian writer.
1917 - Johnny Sain was born. Baseball player.
1918 - Phil Rizzuto was born. Baseball player and announcer.
1920 - Sergei Bondarchuk was born (d. 1994). Ukrainian-born actor.
1921 - Sir Robert Muldoon was born (d. 1992). Prime Minister of New Zealand.
1922 - Hammer DeRoburt was born (d. 1992). First President of Nauru.
1926 - Aldo Ray was born (d. 1991). American actor.
1927 - Sir Colin Davis was born. English conductor .
1929 - Ronnie Barker was born. British comedian and actor.
1929 - Barbara Walters was born. American media personality known for her many years as the first woman network news anchor, on ABC News starting in 1976.
1930 - Shel Silverstein was born (d. 1999). American humorist and author.
1931 - Barbara Walters was born. American broadcaster
1932 - Glenn Gould was born (d. 1982). Canadian pianist and composer.
1932 - Adolfo Suárez González was born. Spanish President.
1933 - Hubie Brown was born. American basketball coach and broadcaster
1936 - Juliet Prowse was born (d. 1996). British actress and dancer.
1938 - Jonathan Motzfeldt was born. First Prime Minister of Greenland
1943 - Robert Gates was born. American director of the Central Intelligence Agency
1944 - Michael Douglas was born. Academy Award-winning actor ( Wall Street [1987]; Disclosure, The China Syndrome, Fatal Attraction, Black Rain, A Chorus Line, The Jewel of the Nile, Romancing the Stone, Basic Instinct, The Game, The Streets of San Francisco). Son of actor Kirk Douglas.
1944 - Doris Matsui was born. U.S. Congresswoman from California
1944 - Mário de Carvalho was born in Lisbon. Portuguese writer (A Paixão do Conde de Fróis, Os Alferes, Era Bom que Trocássemos umas Ideias sobre o Assunto, Um Deus Passeando Pela Brisa da Tarde).
1947 - Cheryl Tiegs was born. American model.
1947 - Ali Parvin was born. Iranian football player.
1951 - Mark Hamill was born. American actor (Star Wars, The Texas Wheelers, Eight is Enough, Batman-The Animated Series, General Hospital).
1951 - Pedro Almodovar was born. Spanish film director.
1952 - Christopher Reeve was born († 2004). American actor (Superman, Somewhere in Time) and activist.
1952 - Anson Williams was born. American actor and director .
1952 - Mark Hamill was born. American actor.
1954 - François Duvalier is elected President of Haiti.
1955 - The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
1955 - Amyr Klink was born. Brazilian navigator.
1955 - Karl-Heinz Rummenigge was born. German football player.
1957 - Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated through the use of United States Army troops
1958 - John B. Watson dies (b. 1878). American psychologist. He is considered the father of behaviorism
1958 - Michael Madsen was born. American actor
1961 - Heather Locklear was born. American actress and model (Melrose Place, Dynasty, T.J. Hooker).
1962 - Aida Turturro was born. American actress
1962 - The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
1964 - Início da luta armada em Moçambique
1965 - Scottie Pippen was born. American basketball player.
1968 - Marcelo Caetano assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal.
1968 - Will Smith was born. American actor and rapper
1969 - Hansie Cronje was born. South African cricketer
1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones was born. Welsh actress ( The Phantom, The Mask of Zorro, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, Entrapment ).
1970 - Dean Ween was born. American musician (Ween)
1970 - Erich Maria Remarque dies (b. 1898). German author.
1971 - John Lynch was born. American football player
1971 - Hal Sparks was born. American actor
1972 - In the Norwegian EC referendum, 1972, the people of Norway reject membership.
1972 - Alejandra Pizarnik dies. Argentine poetess.
1973 - Adam Edwards was born. American film composer-writer-producer
1975 - Declan Donnelly was born. English television presenter
1975 - Matt Hasselbeck was born. American football player
1976 - Chauncey Billups was born. American basketball player
1978 - Jodie Kidd was born. English model see photo
1978 - PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.
1979 - Tapio Rautavaara dies (b. 1915). Finniah athlete, actor, and singer.
1980 - John Bonham dies (b. 1948). British drummer (Led Zeppelin).
1980 - Lewis Milestone dies (b. 1895). Moldovan film director.
1980 - Marie Under dies (b. 1883). Estonian author and poet.
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor was the 102nd Justice sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the first woman to hold the office.
1981 - Belize é admitido como Estado-Membro da ONU
1983 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war (because of time-zone differences, the date was Sept. 25 in the West, and Sept. 26 in the Soviet Union)
1983 - King Léopold III of Belgium dies (b. 1901) .
1983 - In the 35th Emmy Awards the winners included Hill St Blues, Cheers, Ed Flanders and Shelley Long.
1984 - Walter Pidgeon dies (b. 1897). Canadian actor.
1987 - Mary Astor dies (b. 1906). American actress.
1987 - Emlyn Williams dies (b. 1905). Welsh actor.
1988 - Alain Prost (Equipe McLaren) vence o Grande Prémio do Estoril.
1988 - Florence Griffith Joyner won the women's 100-meter dash at the Seoul Olympics.
1990 - Marion Zimmer Bradley dies (b. 1930). American writer.
1991 - Klaus Barbie dies (b. 1913). German SS official.
1994 - Damon Hill (Equipe Williams) vence o Grande Prémio do Estoril
1996 - Nicu Ceauşescu dies (b. 1951). Romanian politician.
1996 - The last of the Magdalen Asylums was closed in Ireland
1997 - Jean Françaix dies (b. 1912). French composer.
1998 - A Pauknair BAE146 crashes into hillside in Morocco killing 38.
1998 - Reinauguração do Museu do Café do Brasil
1999 - Marion Zimmer Bradley dies (b. 1930) American writer.
2000 - R. S. Thomas dies (b. 1913). Welsh poet.
2002 - The Vitim event.
2003 - A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaido, Japan.
2003 - Aquila al-Hashimi dies. Iraqi politician
2003 - Herb Gardner dies (b. 1934). American playwright.
2003 - Franco Modigliani dies (b. 1918). Italian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate.
2003 - George Plimpton dies (b. 1927). American writer and actor.
2004 - A film about Iraqi children victims of war "Turtles can fly" directed by Iranian Bahman Ghobadi won the Concha de Oro (Golden Shell) at the prestigious San Sebastian film festival.


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